Re: What do you call the right side of the taskbar?

Subject: Re: What do you call the right side of the taskbar?
From: Scott Browne <sbrowne -at- UNICOMP -dot- NET>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:44:51 -0600

Pam Wayne wrote:

<snip>
> What is the name of the area on the far right side of the Windows 95
> taskbar? You know, the little box that can contain your system clock
> and icons such as an envelope icon when you have new mail or a
> printer icon when you have a print job running.
>
> The term we are currently using, "system tray," doesn't seem quite
> right (the only reference I found refers to the system tray as "an
> early name for the Win95 taskbar"), nor does "special status area"
> (which I found in another Win95 GUI book).
<snip>

I believe it is now just called the "Tray". I've found several
programs (both 3rd-party and Microsquash) that put their icons down
there when running and they all refer to it as simply the Tray.

Scott
sbrowne -at- unicomp -dot- net
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